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The fundamental difference that the new
command is intended to make—to bring
the stakeholders under “one roof ” to
make decisions that will produce effec-
tive, achievable, affordable capabilities
and requirements rapidly and thus get
the products to the warfighter fast—lies
in the cross-functional teams, each led
by a military or civilian leader from the
operational side of the Army. Each cross-
functional team has representatives from
requirements development, program
management, science and technology
(S&T), test and evaluation, resourcing,
contracting and sustainment, as well as
U.S. Forces Command and, as needed,
Army service component commands,
the operational organizations that serve
as Army components for combatant
commands.
The teams, which report to the undersec-
retary of the Army and the vice chief of
staff, will seek industry and academia’s
involvement early in the process of devel-
oping solutions to get their input on
potential private-sector solutions avail-
able or in development.
Experimentation and technical demon-
strations, will also be integral to the
cross-functional teams’ capability devel-
opment process, involving Soldiers to
help determine if a solution will actu-
ally work, as needed, well before the
Army decides to acquire or develop it. In
remarks Oct. 10 at AUSA, Gen. Mark A.
Milley, Army chief of staff, described this
“significant streamlining of processes” as a
“shift to a SOCOM [U.S. Special Opera-
tions Command]-like model of buy, try,
decide and acquire, rather than the cur-
rent, industrial-age, linear model that
takes years to establish requirements,
decades to test and may take a long, long
time to go from idea to delivery.”
Among experienced practitioners of
rapid acquisition, hopes are high that
the command will succeed, but there
are caveats. The command will require
a well-defined independence and author-
ity, said Peter Newell, who directed the
Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF)
“Our modernization strategy is now
on a curve of diminishing returns.”
—Undersecretary of the Army Ryan D. McCarthy
PLANS TAKING FLIGHT
CH-47 Chinook, HH-60 and UH-60
Black Hawk helicopter crews of the
1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry
Division take off Jan. 25 for their
tactical assembly area inside the
Hohenfels Training Area Airfield,
Germany. The crews were part of
Allied Spirit VIII, a multinational
training exercise focusing on
tactical interoperability and secure
communications among NATO alliance
members. “The U.S. military is not
ready for the threats we face today,”
said Paul Scharre, senior fellow at the
Center for a New American Security.
“In a major power war, we will be
required to innovate on timelines of
months, not years. And we must have
these processes of innovation in place
today.” (U.S. Army photo by Sgt.
Gregory T. Summers, 22nd Mobile
Public Affairs Detachment)
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